Cabin pressure and high altitude typically cause the taste buds to conk out a mixed blessing, some might say, which means Heston Blumenthal has his work cut out preparing the kind of gourmet dishes for British Airways that airline passengers will actually appreciate.

And so, Michael's sad, desperate journey to the land of de-nubification would begin — first with the throwback conk/curls and as time would go by, the more extreme, outré modifications to skin, sinew and bone.